Alexis Terry has joined ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership as director of diversity and inclusion. Her main responsibility is to develop and facilitate a strategic, organization-wide initiative to ensure that ASAE and The Center represents a diverse and inclusive organizational model for the association community and to support the membership in their efforts to embed such practices into their own organizations.
Terry also will support the work of ASAE and The Center’s diversity committee, a body of members who guide the organization’s diversity and inclusion initiative and work with DELP (Diversity Executive Leadership Program) scholars to assist in their continued professional development and involvement in the organization.
Prior to joining ASAE and The Center, Alexis held a variety of roles at BoardSource, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service, based in Washington, D.C.
Terry is the author of BoardSource’s 2008 Next Generation and Governance Findings Report and served as project manager of BoardSource’s Diversity and Next Generation Initiative, a multiyear effort designed to reach and prepare diverse, next generation leaders for board service.
“Alexis joins our team at a crucial time for the association community and we are thrilled to have her,” said John H. Graham IV, CAE, president and CEO, ASAE and The Center. “She will certainly leverage the diversity and inclusion work that has already been completed, like the Diversity Summit and diversity research, as a tool to develop and implement new strategies and techniques to support this important initiative at ASAE and The Center.”
A graduate of Pepperdine University, Terry holds a degree in communication and a certificate in nonprofit management. She is currently pursuing an executive certificate in diversity strategy from Georgetown University.
“I am honored and delighted to be able to play a leadership role in ASAE and The Center’s efforts to foster a more inclusive workplace and continue to leverage diversity as a central, not separate, component of good governance and association leadership,” Terry said. “I intend to work with staff, volunteer leaders, and the association community to advance diversity in its broadest sense, and with a global lens.”
